Children & Teens

Federal Court rejects legal effort to force reparation of women and children in Syrian detention camps The Federal Court has again rejected an effort to force the federal government to bring home Aussie women and children in Syrian refugee camps.

(NCA NewsWire) The Federal Court has upheld a previous judgment rejecting legal arguments that would bring Australian ISIS brides and their children home from a refugee camp in Syria. On Tuesday morning, Justice Christopher Horan announced the court would dismiss an appeal […]

Children & Teens

Fate of Australian women and children in Syrian refugee camps decided in Federal Court The ISIS brides stuck in a refugee camp in Syria will consider an appeal after a court rejected a bid to bring them back home to Australia.

(NCA NewsWire) A legal battle to bring a group of Australian women and their children stuck in a refugee camp in Syria back home to Australia has been rejected by the Federal Court. A group of 20 Australian children and 11 women […]

Children & Teens

Fate of Australian women and children in Syrian refugee camps to be decided in Federal Court A senior diplomat has told a court any effort to bring back ISIS brides and their children stuck in Syrian camps would require a 'political decision.'

(NCA NewsWire) A senior diplomat has told a court she was not aware of any plans to bring ISIS brides and their children back to Australia. On Tuesday, a “last resort” legal fight began in the Federal Court hoping to force the […]

Children & Teens

Four women and 13 children return home to Australia from Syria after secret flight A ‘joyous’ father has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren after four Islamic State families returned to Australia.

(NCA NewsWire) An emotional man has been reunited with his daughter and grandchildren as four families returned home to Australia after being taken from a camp for Islamic State families in Syria. Seventeen people — four women and 13 children — touched […]

Crime

Sicily judge weighs trial of migrant rescue NGOs

(AFP) Charities running migrant rescue ships in the Mediterranean faced a pre-trial hearing in Sicily Saturday over alleged collusion with people traffickers after a controversial probe that involved mass wiretapping. Twenty-one suspects, including crew members of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), Save the […]